St Gerard's RC Primary School - All blog posts

Personal challenge (4) - bat and ball

Posted 29th November 2019

This weeks personal challenge was how many times you can hit a tennis ball up in the air in 30 seconds?

Personal challenge (3) obstacle course

Posted 22nd November 2019

We decided that our next personal challenge would be a obstacle course. The children had to go through ladders,then put a hula hoop over there head, then do that again,then they had to go through the cones,then jump over hurdles then kick/score a ball in the goal.If they didn't t score will kick/score the ball in to the goal again then the sport crew members will tally down your score/time and will pick the winner.

Personal Challenge (2) Skips

Posted 25th October 2019

The 2nd personal challenge was decided by the Sports Crew, and it was decided that the next challenge would be 'How many skips can you do in 30 seconds?' Following on from the success of last week's challenge, the crew soon got to work on their posters and certificates. The announced the challenge in assembly, and were eager to get started.

Personal challenge (1) - Kick ups

Posted 17th October 2019

On Monday 14th October it was our first personal challenge. As a group we decided to have a personal kick up challenge. We decided that it would take place on a Monday for key stage 1s and Reception and on Wednesday's it would be for keys stage 2.

Year 5/6 Tag Rugby Competition (Boys)

Posted 14th October 2019

On Friday 11th October, 9 boys from Year 5 and 6 travelled to the Sports Village to take part in a Tag Rugby Competition. During the first couple of matches the weather was rainy and windy, we got rather wet but it didn't stop us persevering and scoring tries!

Year 3/4 Tag Rugby Competition 4.10.19

Posted 7th October 2019

On Friday a group of Year 4 children hopped on a bus and went to Middlesbrough Sports Village to take part in the Middlesbrough Schools tag rugby competition. The weather wasn't looking too good but we were in high spirits because we have been working really hard in our PE lessons to prepare us for this competition.

Year 3 World Cup Tag Rugby Competition 07.10.19

Posted 7th October 2019

Year 3 took part in a World Cup Tag Rugby Competition in PE this morning. Four teams represented each of the home nations - England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and showed how much they have learnt about the game over the last few weeks.

Y5 House Hockey Competition

Posted 9th April 2019

Today in PE, Year 5 took part in and helped to run an intra-house competition at the end of our unit of work on hockey. Four teams were up against each other to see who could score the most goals and win Gold!

Year 3 Intra house tennis competition

Posted 8th April 2019

Year 3 took part in a tennis competition in PE. We took part in the competition to show what we had learnt in PE this half term. There were 4 teams (Fisher, More, Postgate and Clitherow) We were excited to take part in the competition!

Personal Challenge 6

Posted 1st April 2019

This week's personal challenge was 'how many kick ups can you do in 30 seconds?' A few people took part in this personal challenge in key stage 1 and in key stage 2.

Personal Challenge 5

Posted 25th March 2019

This week's personal challenge was shuttle running between two cones. The children had to do 10 runs in the quickest time to be in with a chance of winning.

Personal Challenge 4

Posted 19th March 2019

This week's personal challenge was a fitness course where each child had to jump in the tyres as many times as possible in 30 seconds.

Year 3 tennis competition 13.3.19

Posted 14th March 2019

This morning 8 Year 3 children jumped on a bus and traveled to Eston Sports Centre to take part in a tennis competition. They had been working really hard in PE so were excited to show off their skills and what they had learnt.

Personal Challenge 3

Posted 11th March 2019

This week's personal challenge for both KS1 and KS2 children was using a tennis racket and a ball to see how many 'keepy ups' you could do in 20 seconds.

Year 3 Tennis Festival 6.3.19

Posted 6th March 2019

On Wednesday 6th March, 25 Year 3 children jumped on the coach, eager to get to their tennis festival at The Stockton Campus of Durham University.

Personal Challenge 2

Posted 4th March 2019

This week's personal challenge for KS1 and KS2 was an obstacle course.

Personal Challenge

Posted 12th February 2019

This week's personal challenge was decided by the Sports Crew at the end of last week. They made posters to introduce the challenge.

Year 4 Dance

Posted 11th February 2019

Year 4 have been working really hard this half term to develop a dance routine inspired by robots. Today, after a short rehearsal, each group performed their routine and were judged by Mrs Harding and Elwood.

Year 5/6 girls tag rugby

Posted 8th October 2018

On the 3rd of October 2018 9 of the Year 5 and 6 girls traveled to the sports village for a tag rugby competition. The weather was windy, cloudy and dry.

Year 3/4 Tag Rugby

Posted 8th October 2018

On the 1st October 2018 the Year 3 children went to play in a tag rugby competition at Middlesbrough Sports Village to win, obviously!

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St Gerard's RC Primary School

In 2018-19, all of the staff and pupils at St. Gerard's, including our fantastic Sports Crew, worked extremely hard to develop our PE and sport provision. We were beyond proud to have this recognised nationally by achieving the Gold School Games Mark for the second consecutive year! In 2019-20 we hope to achieve this accolade again by further strengthening our PE, School Sport and Physical Activity programme.

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